Google is taking another bite of the Big Apple. The search giant on Monday detailed its plan to spend $1 billion on a new campus in New York City. The 1.7 million square-foot Manhattan campus will be known as Google Hudson Square, Ruth Porat, the company’s chief financial officer, said in a blog post. The …

Apple will send out a software update to reverse a court ban on older iPhone models in China. It’ll push the update “early next week,” according to Reuters, after a court ordered that Chinese subsidiaries stop selling the iPhone 6S, iPhone 6S Plus, iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus, iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus and iPhone X. The ban stemmed from …

YouTube Rewind 2018 became the site’s most disliked video ever Thursday, just a week after its release. The video hit 10 million dislikes early Thursday, according to LikesCounter, has been viewed more than 120 million times and has more than 2.1 million likes. Before Thursday, Justin Bieber’s Baby was YouTube’s most disliked video. Uploaded in 2010, it has 9.8 million dislikes, more …

Apple will build a new $1 billion campus in Austin, Texas, part of an expansion of operation across the US, the company said Thursday. The iPhone maker will also set up new offices in Seattle, San Diego and Culver City, California, as well as expand operations in Pittsburgh, New York and Boulder, Colorado, according to a release. The planned expansion …

Samsung has reportedly applied to trademark a trio of new phone names that hint at its 2019 plans. The British and Mexican applications, as reported by LetsGoDigital, refer to the Rize10, Rize20 and Rize30. However, they’re just names and give no real indication of what the phones might be. It’s expected that Samsung will release three Galaxy S10 phones, and …

Epic Games removed its Infinity Blade trilogy from the App Store Wednesday, as it focuses resources on megahit Fortnite and its collaboration with J.J. Abrams. The first Infinity Blade game hit Apple’s digital store in 2010, having “amazed” the late Steve Jobs, and it made more than $1.6 million in its first four days. The game led to a pair …

A trio of patent applications hint at Facebook’s efforts to figure out your next move, when you’ll be offline and how best to advertise to you. The proposed patents, previously reported by Buzzfeed News, won’t necessarily result in these systems being implemented, but do give a sense of how the social network could take advantage of the location data it …

Xiaomi showed off the Gamepad 2.0 accessory for its Black Shark gaming phone on Monday, and it sure looks familiar. The Chinese smartphone giant’s original Gamepad — which turns the Black Shark into a gaming console — launched alongside the Android phone in April. But the updated version creates a setup that closely resembles the Nintendo Switch. The images shown …

Amazon reportedly fired workers in the US and India for allegedly giving internal data to independent sellers linked to scams. Following an investigation into suspected bribes, the e-commerce giant took action against disreputable sellers by limiting access to data and deleting thousands of suspicious reviews, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday. Part of the probe is centered on India, which …

Microsoft’s Chromium-based Edge refresh will most likely support existing Chrome extensions, a developer revealed. That’ll give you access to a massive library of browser customization options as Edge moves toward Google’s open-source project. “It’s our intention to support existing Chrome extensions,” Microsoft’s Kyle Alden wrote on Reddit, as previously reported by Thurrott. Now playing: Watch this: How Chrome changed web …